The author provides an easy-to-follow tutorial and user's guide that works in conjunction with product documentation to get both beginning and experienced users off to the fastest possible start with this latest release of InfoMaker. Topics covered include Infomaker Basics, from concepts and installation to customization of the program, Infomaker Painters and how to choose the right one for the job, planning your InfoMaker project and conforming to standards and guidelines, navigating the environment and working with databases and data types, building and modifying forms, producing customized reports and much more. InfoMaker 5 Professional Reference is beneficial not only to InfoMaker users, but also to PowerBuilder developers who must support InfoMaker applications. The book contains a description and examples of form styles, functions, and libraries of objects which can be used between the two environments.
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Make the most of InfoMaker 5's powerful cross-database access, reporting and application prototyping capabilities! Tens of thousands of developers, DBAs, and users looking for the ideal client/server user interface are convinced that they have found it in Powersoft's InfoMaker 5-the fast growing information access and reporting tool that crosses platform and database lines to bring back data from diverse systems throughout an organization. In this unique and timely book, InfoMaker 5 users will also find the tips and techniques they need to gain maximum productivity from this extremely powerful and popular product. The author provides an easy-to-follow tutorial and user's guide that works in conjunction with product documentation to get both beginning and experienced users off to the fastest possible start with this latest release of InfoMaker. Topics covered include: InfoMaker Basics, from concepts and installation to customization of the program; InfoMaker Painters and how to choose the right one for the job; Planning your InfoMaker project and conforming to standards and guidelines; Navigating the environment and working with databases and data types; Building and modifying forms, producing customized reports and much more. InfoMaker 5 Professional Reference is beneficial not only to InfoMaker users, but also to PowerBuilder developers who must support InfoMaker applications. The book contains a description and examples of form styles, functions, and libraries of objects which can be used between the two environments. No matter what your InfoMaker job or experience, you'll benefit from this book's step-by-step organization and approach to building an InfoMaker 5 application-ready to use on the job! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jane Roseen (Warroad, MN) is Managing Editor of the webzine The PowerBuilder and Java Journal and edited the recent Secrets of the PowerBuilder Masters. She is a widely experienced developer of mainframe, PC, and client/server applications.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better than the documentation, but that isn't saying much.,
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This review is from: Infomaker 5: Professional Reference : A Guide to Developing Client/Server Applications (McGraw-Hill Series on Client/server Computing) (Paperback)
The focus of this book is mainly on telling you the names of the parts of Infomaker. While it does have examples of how to use some of the features of Infomaker, they tend to be very basic. If you are looking for information about creating queries, this book isn't for you. The Infomaker 5 documentation is so poor that I did learn some things, but it didn't answer most of my questions.
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Not a very good tutorial.,
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This review is from: Infomaker 5: Professional Reference : A Guide to Developing Client/Server Applications (McGraw-Hill Series on Client/server Computing) (Paperback)
With out a well-developed back ground in relational databases, I would not have been able to follow the book and tutorials. The tutorials contain errors and misdirection. For instance, the author, in chapter 8, instructs the user to input his/her very first row in a sample table that was just created. When the data is committed to the database, an error occurs because data is missing from a primary table (the primary table must be filled out first). This was one of the many errors I found in the tutorial.The book is far short of what I experienced a similar tutorial for MS Access published by the MS press.
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